Lukas Rathjen

Lukas Rathjen has been a doctoral student at the Chair of Literature and Cultural Studies at the ETH Zurich since March 2021. In 2020, he completed his Master’s degree in History and Philosophy of Knowledge with a dissertation on the “Darmstädter Gespräche”. Prior to that, he studied History, Archaeology and Interdisciplinary Anthropology in Hamburg and Freiburg. His thesis on the intellectual culture of communication in the post-war period in the Federal Republic of Germany is supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher and Prof. Dr. Philipp Felsch (Humboldt University Berlin), and is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) with a doc.ch-scholarship. The working title of his PhD project is: Rhetorical Humanism: A History of Knowledge on ‘Conversation’ in the Early Federal Republic (1947-1968).